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"We can’t go on like this. I believe it’s time we shone the light of transparency on lobbying in our country and forced our politics to come clean about who is buying power and influence." David Cameron, Feb 2010.

If you agree with Dave on this, vote now for new rules to force lobbyists to operate in the open.

Power2010 is a campaign where you get to push for political reform. Transparency rules for lobbyists is just one idea out of a long list of proposed reforms – the top 5 most popular ideas, as voted for by you, will become part of a major campaign in the run up to the general election. If lobbying transparency makes it into the top 5, there’s a strong chance that the proposal will become government policy.

Vote now for new rules to open up lobbying to public scrutiny – and let’s see who the government is really listening to.

This is how it would work: all lobbyists – those people paid to influence government decision-making, mainly employed by businesses – would have to declare on a public register who they are, who they are working for, and which areas of public life they are seeking to influence.

For the first time we’d see the extent to which the financial sector is trying to fight off proposed regulation; who's pushing for the introduction of ID cards; which private healthcare companies are targeting the NHS; or who's influencing the Ministry of Defence’s spending decisions. The list is endless. Currently we've no right to know what these lobbyists are up to.

Inexpensive and easy to introduce, transparency rules for lobbyists are one political reform that has a realistic chance of becoming reality – it already has the backing of the Lib Dems, an influential committee of MPs, and 200 backbenchers.

Vote for transparency in lobbying now.

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